This film portrays all that can go wrong during the Xmas season–getting stuck in the snow, long shopping lines, coping with the fights that flair up during family get-togethers, the perils of preparing holiday meals, airport layovers–as people struggle to sing along in unison the Andy Williams classic, “It’s the most wonderful time of the year.”
The pairing of the song with the pitfalls of the holidays makes for a delightfully ironic pairing to promote the Wonderful Christmas by Orange, the place where you can get the gifts that bring a smile to your face no matter what the holidays may otherwise bring. Indeed at the film’s end we see folks unwrap their gifts with joyful results–all the trials and tribulations are forgotten thanks to the perfect presents bought at Orange.
This Orange Xmas was conceived by a creative ensemble at Publicis Conseil, Paris, and directed by Megaforce via production house Iconoclast.
Credits
Client Orange France Agency Publicis Conseil, Paris Fabrice Delacourt, executive creative director; Kevin Salembier, copywriter; Julien Boissinot, art director; Lucie Puybonnieux, Alexandre Perdereau, art directors assistants. Production Iconoclast Megaforce, directors; Arnaud Potier, DP; Nathalie Le Caer, producer; Alexia Levy, line producer; Coralie Rose, casting; Marco Puig, production designer. Postproduction Prodigious/Mathematic Franck-Herve Marc, Laura Warnault, post producers; Sophie Fourdrinoy, editing; Mathieu Caplanne, grading; Frederic Brandon, VFX supervisor/lead artist. Audio Prodigious/750MPH Boris Nicou, Joel Tessonneau, sound producers; Sam Ashwell, sound designer (750MPH); Alex Firla, sound engineer. Music “It’s The Most Beautiful Time of the Year (Andy Williams; Eddie Pola, George Wyle), Barnaby Music Corp.
“The Contextualist,” the latest chapter in Bloomberg Media’s “Context Changes Everything” brand platform, debuts today (3/6), creatively distinguishing Bloomberg.com & the Bloomberg app subscription’s value for global business and government leaders. The new concept builds on the campaign’s foundation of context--the power of Bloomberg’s journalism to draw deft connections between its wealth of news, insights and data in every corner of the world.
Golden Globe and BAFTA-award winning filmmaker Brady Corbet (The Brutalist) directed three new spots for the campaign via magna studios in his debut helming brand commercials. This spot titled “The Price of Tea in China” takes a well-known and seemingly simple idiom and unpacks its complexity as an international business story in a 30-second journey. (The other two commercials are “Bird in the Hand” and “Rising Tides.” The “Context” campaign continues to be developed in collaboration agency Wieden+Kennedy New York.
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